Thread: my kitchen cupboards

Rick,
From what I can barely see, it looks good, but having trouble checking out your picture as it does not seem to want to open in a new Window. Keep trying we may get to see it a little larger than a postage stamp.

Kev M

Arrgh,, A nice kitchen to view and it's not quite viewable - talk about a tease!!!!

OK, back to being patient.....

cheers
RufflyRustic

Rick

If you using Windozzzzz just open the Pic in MS paint. after loaded pick the image tab. Next pick Stretch/Skew, them type in 50% in both the Horiz and Vert and that will shrink it ( use undo if it is not small enough or to small and try again ), then save it. ( don't resize your master pic save them to A CD in full size for later use . make a copy to a temp Dir and resize it then up load it and delete it if not needed.) After you do this a few time you find a good number to allways ues.

My camera make Pic 2048 by 1536 (607K) in ress I like to use. In MS paint I us the number 30 (%) it will make the Pic now 615 by 461 (31k) good size to upload. hope this helps.

i would really love to see more detail on the doors..

A greenie for you Junkboy, as a result of your instructions I managed to post my first photos last night. Thanks again.

Kev M

Looks interesting.I too am in the early stages of rebuilding our kitchen, Could you tell me what timber you used and what finish you decided to go with?

really finding it hard to work out how to post pictures . Maybe this will work . I hope so . Thanks everyone for your help . The timber is gum and blackwood . The finish is 7008 .

And he's still teasing me

Love the design in the door. Are they half-lapped joints? please excuse my ignorance, but what is 7008?

Thanks
RufflyRustic

Trying again to see if this picture can be enlarged

7008 is a two part epoxy gloss finish . I like it on my blackwood as it really brings out the colour and it is hard too. I wouldn't use it on breadboards or anything like that as I'm a sure its toxic . Its biggest drawback is that you need special thinners ( I just use cheap brushes and discard them ) and part B seems to go off if not used quickly .
I'm not sure what the joint is called although its not a half lapped joint . Its a bit like a mortise and tennon , I'll try to describe it . About 1/3 of the timber removed from lets call it the female joint and then the outside 1/3 on both sides of the other removed , call it the male joint . Sorry I cant explain it better . I'll try my hand at my new found skill of posting photos . Also the groove is used to hold the paneling in the frame . Wish I could explain it better but I hope you'll get the idea .
Its an easy join with the Triton table and gives exceptional gluing area .

Here is a photo of the very simple join for the cupboard doors . It is very easy on the table saw and I reckon it is very , very strong .

Thanks Rick - makes sense. Blackwood - no wonder I'm in love with your kitchen!

cheers
RufflyRustic

Nice Rick

I still love to see a little bigger Pic of the doors. I want to see how that panel are raised. Is the twisted design on the front raised too.

Another thing you can try is to post your Pic's to a sight like Photobucket.com. works well and people dont get bombareded with pop-up like other free hoasting sights. The sight show you what the links looks like to past on a BB, Homepage, or forum. Kinda like this

Here I just pasted the link in to that text while I was typing

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...ks/shelf01.jpg


Here I used the Insert Image buttom when you using the adavance option for answering messages ( URL methed on Photobucket.com page )